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Travel for Sporting Events
100 Sporting Events You Must See Live
An Insider’s Guide to Creating the Sports Experience of a Lifetime By Robert Tuchman
Every night I sit down to watch people around the world play in the snow. I love the Olympics. It brings back family memories of sitting around the television after dinner, watching Dorthy Hammil [...]
Book Review – Tales from Nowhere
Tales from Nowhere
Unexpected stories from unexpected places – A Lonely Planet Anthology
Edited by Don George
Authors – various
A fellow travel friend gave me this book a couple of years ago as he thought I’d enjoy it considering my fondness for travel writing and traveling to ‘out of the way’ places. I took it and promptly put [...]
Shop till you Drop
I’ve been busy working in retail this weekend…actually, I’ve been building a store! No, it’s not a brick and mortar store, it’s an online travel store for Ottsworld readers. Of course this little project that should have been rather simple ended up taking me about 4 hours, but it’s done now; mission accomplished!
Check out my [...]
The Motorbike Diaries – Vol. 7
Start from the Beginning - Motorbike Diaries Vol. 1
I’m on the road and my motorbike is parked in my living room having a vacation! I thought I would put out this post though since it pertains to motorbikes and Vietnam. Stay tuned for more Motorbike Diaries and travel posts when I return from my trekking in [...]
Book Review – Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Photo: Indian girl practicing English
After a failed climb of K2 in Pakistan Greg Mortenson set out on a mission of another kind – one that required an immense amount of perseverance and passion beyond K2. This is the true story of Greg Mortenson’s journey to “promote peace one school at a time” I thought that [...]
Book Review: Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Snowflower and the Secret Fan is a fictional book set in 19th Century China – fittiing for all of my China travel in Oct. and Nov. I actually read this book for my sister’s book club. I must start with I normally don’t read fiction – for some reason it lacks the ‘thrill ‘ factor [...]
Book Review – Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald
I just finished the book Holy Cow, a memoir about an Australian’s experiences living in India. It was recommended to me to be a a good book to read before you came to India to get a feeling for the country – or to scare you off. Of course I didn’t end up starting the [...]
Book Review – My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Shop and Purchase My Sister’s Keeper: A Novel
I don’t really read Fiction anymore, but this book, My Sister’s Keeper, did the impossible – it made me a believer in fiction again. While in Morocco, one of the women in my tour group had brought this book and over the 3 weeks we were there, 4 [...]
Book Review – The Secret History By Donna Tartt
The Secret History is an older book..not old like Moby Dick…but old like in it was a best seller in 1992. My friend Miles brought it for me as it’s one of his favorite books. I must admit – I haven’t been reading much Fiction lately – but it was fun to get lost [...]
Book Review – Lucky Child by Loung Ung
Shop and Purchase Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)
This is the 2nd book that I’ve read in a series of memoires by Loung Ung. She survived the Genocide in Camodia in the first book, and she has gone on to share the story of her integration into [...]
Book Review – First They Killed My Father
Shop and Purchase: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)
This is the story of the Cambodia genocide that happened a mere 30 years ago. Since I am going to be in Cambodia and specifically wanted to see the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, I felt that it was important to better [...]
Book Review – The Girl in The Picture
The Girl in the Picture – The story of Kim Phuc – by Denise Chong
This is the story about a picture which I’m sure you’ve all seen – a little girl, Kim Phuc, running down a road, naked and burned by napalm – her picture was snapped and it changed her life. Nick Ut was [...]
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Shop and Purchase: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
This book was recommended to me by Keith and Jaqui from South Africa – it was wonderful! This is a true story about three generations of women in China. It covers a vast amount of Chinese History from their family perspective and stories. It spans from 1909 [...]
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Shop and Purchase: Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris is brilliant – he tells story after story about his life with such humor – and strangely (or maybe disturbingly) you can relate to many of his stories! His dry sense of humor is just what I love. Every time I read his stories I think [...]
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Shop/Purchase West with the Night
Non-Fiction, written in 1942
Beryl was a female who grew up in Kenya – and she shared her absolute love of the country through this book. She shared her experiences as a little girl growing up on a Brittish East Africa farm and hunting with the tribe people, racing horses as a [...]
